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Abstract This collection comprises papers from the 1860s, consisting of twenty letters, an album of thirteen photographs, three newspapers, and sixteen military documents including ordnance and quartermaster forms, duty documents, and equipment lists, all collected by Charles E. Foote, an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The letters were written by Foote between January 1864 and November 1865 to his young fiancée, Kate La Rue, who was living in their hometown of Ypsilanti,...

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This collection contains a letter from Confederate soldier Jason Cooper, dated December 5, 1863 from Dalton, Georgia. Written "To his dear friend Farley," Cooper writes about the Confederate evacuation of Chattanooga.

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William Helsley wrote this letter to his wife, Mary (Yancer) Helsley, from Chattanooga, Tennessee between August 6 and 10 of 1864.

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Collection contains a single letter written by William Helsley, a soldier in the 19th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on August 29, 1864. Helsley penned this letter to his wife, Mary Yauser Helsley, while stationed in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In the letter, Helsley discusses a scare in which he and others were warned of activities by Confederate Colonel Wheeler that ultimately never happened.

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William J. Helsley wrote these two letters to his wife, Mary, on July 23 and September 7, 1864 during the Civil War. In them, he describes guarding a bridge over the Tennessee River, the Confederate retreat from Atlanta, and General Morgan's death.